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Senior AI Editor & Investigative Journalist
Elena is a technology journalist with over eight years of experience covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the startup ecosystem. Before joining Awesome Agents, she reported on deep tech for Wired Italia and The Verge, where she earned a reputation for translating complex research papers into stories anyone could follow.
She holds a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor's in Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome - a combination that gives her a unique lens on both the technical and ethical dimensions of AI.
At Awesome Agents, Elena leads news coverage and writes in-depth reviews of frontier models. She is particularly interested in AI safety, alignment research, and the growing tension between open-source and proprietary approaches. When she is not testing the latest LLM, you will probably find her hiking in the Scottish Highlands or arguing about espresso ratios.
Based in Edinburgh, UK.
A missing noindex tag let Google surface hundreds of private Claude conversations and Artifacts in late July 2026, the third time in eleven months a major chatbot's share feature has leaked user chats onto the open web.
This week's research roundup covers agent benchmarks that reward exploits over real capability, reasoning models that give up despite having the answer, and why LoRA can't internalize multi-step procedures.
UK AISI and US CAISI found Kimi K3 scores 32.2% on an exploit-development benchmark against 76.2% for top US models, a gap that complicates both White House alarm and its own distillation accusation against Moonshot.
Claude Opus 5 ties Claude Fable 5 on independent benchmarks at roughly a quarter of the cost, though a rough launch week and cybersecurity limits keep it from being an unqualified win.
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue is publicly pressing OpenAI to release the rogue agents' execution traces and fund $100 million in shared cyber defenses.
Tracking AI supply-chain attacks, agent exploits, prompt injection, model leaks, and the real-world incidents shaping AI security today.
A bipartisan House bill would force AI companies to build government shutdown capability, a week after a State Department cable told diplomats no such 'kill switch' exists.
A single chat message could break an AI agent out of Claude Cowork's isolated VM and reach an entire Mac, and Anthropic closed the report as informative.
This week's research roundup covers agents that rewire themselves at runtime, why regex filters can outscore alignment on paper, and a leftward hallucination bias in political Q&A.
Cognition rebranded Windsurf as Devin Desktop and rebuilt it around a Kanban board for managing fleets of coding agents - here's what that actually changes.
Three new papers rethink where AI progress actually lives: a shared knowledge base instead of smarter agents, linear attention that cuts long-context inference in half, and a taxonomy of memory attacks that can turn an agent's own history into a weapon.
White House tech policy chief Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI distilled Claude Fable 5 to build Kimi K3, and Treasury threatens sanctions over the claim.
